Ukraine

Martin Horwood Excerpts
Monday 28th April 2014

(10 years ago)

Commons Chamber
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Martin Horwood Portrait Martin Horwood (Cheltenham) (LD)
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Does the Foreign Secretary agree that the credibility of international agreements such as the Geneva convention, the UN charter and the Budapest memorandum is now at stake if the post-second world war international system is not to fail in the way the post-first world war system did?

Lord Hague of Richmond Portrait Mr Hague
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Yes, it is. That is why the UN Security Council was 13 votes to one on this matter, and the UN General Assembly 100 votes to 11. The concerns the hon. Gentleman expresses are widely shared around the world.